Study shows racial/ethnic disparities in medical/oral health status and care for minority children
...dhood Health, a 2003-04 phone survey of a national random sample of parents of 102,353 children, 0-17 years old, according to Dr. Flores. After adjustment in multivariate analysis, disparities in health status persisted for one or more minority groups in terms of suboptimal health or dental status, overweig...Chemical guidance of T cells leads to immunologic memory and long-term immunity
...D8+ T cell, also called a cytotoxic T cell, is not random as was previously thought, but instead is guided by chemical signals released from other cells. Scientists have long recognized the importance of understanding how CD8+ T cells move through the lymph nodes and become activated. Once active, CD8+ T ce...Moderate drinking associated with better cognition in women
...free residents of Northern Manhattan selected by a random digit dialing protocol. This study was conducted in a subsample of 2,215 participants with both alcohol and carotid plaque data available. Their average age was 69. Fifty-four percent of the participants were Hispanic, 25 percent black and 21 percen...Chaos=Order: Physicists make baffling discovery
...n they introduced disorder forces were applied at random to each oscillator the system became ordered and ... system when the [forces on the pendulums] act at random the chaos that was present before disappears and there is order," said Sebastian F. Brandt, physics...M-rated video games contain unlabeled violence, sexual themes, substances, and profanity
...t Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), 81% of a random sample of Mature-rated video games included conten...n, and Kevin Haninger, researchers at HSPH, used a random sample of 25% of the 147 video games for current consoles rated M by the Entertainment Software Rati...H5N1 avian flu virus vaccine induces immune responses in healthy adults
... to 64 years old. Each participant was assigned at random to one of five groups. Volunteers in each group received an initial dose of vaccine (7.5 micrograms [mcg], 15 mcg, 45 mcg or 90 mcg) or saline placebo into the upper arm muscle; about one month later, they received a booster shot of the same vaccine ...Combining alcohol and Red Bull reduces the 'perception' of impairment
...ticipants completed three experimental sessions in random order, seven days apart: ingesting alcohol alone, energy drink alone, or alcohol and energy drink combined. At each session, researchers recorded the participants' subjective sensations of intoxication, as well as objective measures of their motor c...Teens' herbal product use associated with illicit substance use
...outh Risk Behavior Survey which provided data on a random sample of 2,006 high school students. Herbal product use was defined by lifetime use of "herbal or other natural products--to feel better, or perform better in sports or school." Overall, 28.6 percent of teens reported using herbal products. Herbal p...Lumbee Native Americans have higher cardiovascular risks
...he same databank, the researchers identified 2,763 random non-Lumbees to serve as a comparison. The researchers found statistically significant differences between Lumbees and non-Lumbees in age (60 vs. 64), hypertension (70.9 percent vs. 62.5 percent), diabetes (37.6 percent vs. 28.1 percent), prior heart ...Light-based device probes for early cancer signs
...e generally tested for cancer periodically through random biopsy. Previous studies by Wax's team used a/LCI to identify pre-cancer in animal tissue. Pre-cancerous cells are characterized by an enlarged nucleus, the structure that houses the cell's genetic material. It is such cellular changes that pathologi...One in three adults are lonely, especially people in their forties
... Just under 50 per cent of the people contacted at random agreed to take part in the study. All were over 18, with an average age of just over 46 and there were almost equal numbers of males (49.9 per cent) and females. People didn't necessarily get lonelier as they get older. Apart from the youngest ag...For some with partial spinal cord injury, two different therapies show positive results
...rd injury within the previous eight weeks. Through random selection, 58 patients received body weight-supported treadmill training, and 59 patients received conventional overground mobility therapy. Based on level of impairment, they were also categorized into three groups, B (more impaired), C, or D (less ...Over 50 percent of patients with circulatory disorders still smoke lack of counselling to blame
...rsity of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany studied a random sample of 3,778 individuals who had smoked or were still smokers. Participants were asked to fill in a questionnaire about their health status, weight and exercise habits. The results of the study show that 52.1% of the participants who had had a ci...Problems at World Anti-Doping Agency will 'drive innocent athletes out of sport'
... substances and monitors drug use in sport through random tests. In a review of some of the practices and procedures used by WADA, a leading sports scientist from the USA and a top marathon coach from the UK have identified major problems that they believe will lead to innocent athletes paying the price for...Study examines treatment to maintain blood pressure in those with disorder causing postural drops
... condition received each of the four treatments in random order on successive days. The researchers measured the participants' blood pressure and heart rate immediately before treatment and again each hour for six hours following treatment. Participants who took pyridostigmine alone or with 5 milligrams of...Chance, music, and the ear of the beholder
...ld we inhabit is constantly subjected to countless random influences that may occasionally conspire to bring...uch like the boy in this game, by a combination of random influences, from dust grains in a drop of water pushed about by the collision with water molecules t......om a gene that was mutated artificially to produce random variations. They generated the enzymes in the droplets and sorted them according to which ones were better at cleaving a specific toxin in the bloodstream. The results from a screen completed in one afternoon were equivalent to those previously obtai...Hydrocortisone supplementation improves ventilator weaning
...igators divided the 70 patients into two groups by random computer selection. Thirty-five individuals were treated with hydrocortisone intravenously, while 35 controls received a saline solution. The successful ventilator weaning percentage was significantly higher in the group that received the hydrocortis...Wine drinkers have healthier diets than beer drinkers
.... They analysed 3.5 million transactions chosen at random from 98 outlets of two large Danish supermarket chains over a six month period (September 2002 to February 2003). Customers were categorised as "wine only," "beer only," "mixed," or "non-alcohol" buyers. Details of items bought, the number and price...International HIV/AIDS trial finds continuous antiretroviral therapy superior to episodic therapy
... benefit. HIV-positive volunteers were assigned at random to either a viral suppression strategy, in which antiretroviral therapy (ART) was taken on an ongoing basis to suppress HIV viral load; or a drug conservation strategy, in which ART was started only when the levels of key immune cells, called CD4+ ce...